The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia, meaning “All Holy” in Greek) at Melá Mountain near Trabzon, Turkey. The monastery was founded in 386 AD…
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With grateful acknowledgement to NR, we repost this characteristically penetrating analysis from George Weigel – even though we object to the repeated use of the contrived title “major-archbishop”, which is entirely a…
Serdar KORUCUISTANBUL / Radikal, April 9, 2014 The structure was built as a church by Istanbul’s Byzantine rulers around 800 years ago [possibly dedicated to St Theodoros], but was converted into…
A Lesson from History English translation of the book “To the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs. The Underground Activity and Reemergence of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” was published…
April/29/2014 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to perform prayers at Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia, along with the leaders of other Islamic countries, according to daily Radikal. The ruling Justice…
Turkey’s Armenian Christians living near Syrian border are deeply fearful Stephen Starr, Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 01:00 In the hills overlooking the Mediterranean sea’s most easterly shoreline, a group of elderly men sit…
Pascha 20 April 2014, Damascus (issued 25 April 2014) The relics of St Thekla have disappeared After the liberation of Ma’alula from occupation by terrorist groups on Monday, 14 April 2014, Melkite Greek Catholic…
By Catholic News Service on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham and Orthodox Patriarch John X visit the ancient Christian town of Maaloula, Syria, on Easter Sunday (CNS)…
First, there follows an editorial from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), entitled “99 Years of Turkish Genocide”. In the title of this post, we changed this to make it clear that…
04/22/2014, by Fady Noun The patriarch visited the village of Ma’aloula after the army took it back from the Islamist al-Nusra Front. “”An apocalyptic spectacle presented itself,” he said. The West is…